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17 February, 2022 @ 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
The outdoor market takes place on Thursdays and Saturdays throughout the year, with the exception of Christmas Day & New Year's Day. Stalls are set up in Market Street and New Market Street. The market is managed by Ulverston Community Enterprises, c/o The Coronation Hall. Also on market days, a community fundraising coffee morning normally takes place in the Coronation Hall Supper Room.
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U.S. Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet will speak this evening at an open house at the Boulder Wind Power facility in Louisville addressing a variety of energy and economic issues.
The event will be held beginning at 5 p.m. at Boulder Wind Power, 1812 Boxelder St., according to a company news release. Topics will include Congress's extension of the Wind Energy Production Tax Credit, for which Udall actively campaigned and Bennet supported, as well as other energy and jobs news.
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30 Blueberry Recipes You'll Love
Blueberry Almond Bars
At the Marshall County Fair's annual Blueberry Bake-A-Rama in Plymouth, Indiana, Lori Van Der Weele took home the Grand Champion award with this recipe that combines blueberries, butter, white baking pieces and almonds.
Very Blueberry Pie
This easy-to-make pie calls for pouring a warm sugar glaze over a generous amount of fresh blueberries or raspberries.
No-Churn Blueberry Ice Cream
Pure. Violet. Joy. The intense color comes from simmering the berries for a few minutes to release their juices—but after that step, this brightly fruity no-special-gear-required recipe couldn't be more simple.
Blueberry Sauce
Whip up this sweet and juicy sauce for the perfect ice cream or pie topping.
Blueberry Thunder Muffins
A sprinkle of cinnamon-sugar gives a sweet crust to these berry-packed muffins.
Blueberry Cheesecake Cupcakes
Graham cracker crumbs, cream cheese and blueberry pie filling turn yellow cake mix into a whimsical twist on a favorite dessert. The idea comes from Designer Desserts Bakery in Valparaiso, Indiana.
Double Berry Cobbler
Handy shortcuts make this recipe a breeze. Cooking the fruit in an oven-safe skillet cuts the bake time (and the number of dirty dishes). Refrigerated biscuits form the simple topper.
Blueberry-Almond Streusel Muffins
Light ricotta cheese and whole wheat flour cut fat and add fiber to these muffins from Covered Bridge Farm in Forest Lake, Minnesota.
Lemon-Blueberry Biscuits
Lemon yogurt is the secret ingredient in these pretty biscuits. The recipe comes from Natura Farms in Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota.
Blueberry-Coconut Pavlova
When Kristin Rosenau (thepastryaffair.com) discovered her lactose intolerance, she had to get creative in her Bismarck kitchen. The result: Desserts like Blueberry-Coconut Pavlova, a crispy-chewy pillow of meringue topped with whipped coconut milk and blueberry sauce.
Blueberry Sour Cream Dessert
Use fresh blueberries when in season to make this rich dessert, a cross between a pie and a cheesecake.
Blueberry Pound Cake
Make good use of farm-fresh blueberries with this simple fruit-filled pound cake. Add a teaspoon of vanilla flavoring or a teaspoon of lemon zest, if you like.
Lemon Blueberry Fan Cookies
Lemon extract and blueberry jam make the perfect sweet and tangy combination for these eye-catching shaped cookies.
Very Berry Triple Fruit Pie
More than 4 cups of berries make this pie extra juicy. Be sure to let it cool completely before you slice it. And don't forget the vanilla ice cream! The recipe comes from Covered Bridge Farm in Forest Lake, Minnesota.
Strawberry-Blueberry Cookie Crisp
Prep this easy dessert in just 10 minutes, then bake for 25 minutes. Crumbled pecan shortbread cookies form the topping over a fresh fruit filling.
Berry Blue Cheese Spread
Combine dried blueberries, blue cheese and cream cheese for a tangy appetizer spread perfect for whole grain crackers or cracker bread. Add in a little cream or milk if you prefer a softer spread.
Blueberry Twisties
This tender, sweet bread, filled with blueberry spread and drizzled with icing, won best of show at the Marshall County Fair in Plymouth, Indiana. A blueberry baker from Argos, Indiana, entered the treat.
Finnish Blueberry Pie
This berry pie proves that there's beauty in simplicity. The piecrust is wrapped around a three-ingredient filling that includes fine dry breadcrumbs. You don't even need a pie plate to make this juicy treat.
Blueberry Streusel Coffee Cake
Plump blueberries create a juicy filling in this old-fashioned sour cream coffee cake from The White Gull Inn in Fish Creek on Wisconsin's Door County Peninsula.
Blueberry Custard Pie
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Berry Trifle
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Blueberry Ice Cream Pie
Combine fresh blueberries, vanilla ice cream and homemade blueberry sauce in an almond-brown sugar crust for this showstopping dessert.
Berry Easy Cobbler
This crunch-topped cobbler calls for 3 cups of blueberries, but if you'd like a double-fruit version, reduce the blueberries to 2 cups and add 2 cups fresh or frozen tart cherries.
Blueberry-Lemon Loaf
Make this loaf on a Sunday night so it's ready for a quick weekday morning meal.
Blueberry Cupcakes
Fresh blueberries get baked into these vanilla-flavored cupcakes and scattered on top.
Blueberry Cream Treats
When it's time for the blueberry harvest at DeGrandchamp Farms in South Haven, Michigan, this quick dessert fits the family's busy schedule. It's simple, yet so good.
Blueberry-Pineapple Smoothie
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Cherry-Berry Rich Shortcakes
Michigan's fruit belt inspired our Cherry-Berry Rich Shortcakes. We played up the sweet cherries grown in the Great Lakes State, along with blueberries and raspberries. A shortcake biscuit base and sweetened whipped cream complete the dessert.
Mary Lou's Muffins
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Blueberry Shortcake
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Blueberry Chardonnay Jam
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Old friends turn out for Mindy McCready memorial
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Mindy McCready's time in Nashville was filled with music, and her memorial service in Music City reflected that.
Old friends Bryan White, Lorrie Morgan and Bekka Bramlett sang for McCready and family members spoke about her difficulties and triumphs during the hour-long remembrance Wednesday at the Cathedral of the Incarnation.
"She achieved many of her dreams with No. 1 records and fame," said singer Lorrie Morgan, a former label mate of McCready's. "But we all know fame and fortune do not ensure happiness."
The Nashville memorial attended by about 200 comes two weeks after her funeral in her hometown of Fort Myers, Fla.
McCready shot herself last month on the front porch of the home she once shared with her fiance, David Wilson, in Heber Springs, Ark., authorities have said. That's the same spot where Wilson, the father of her second son, committed suicide a month earlier.
Authorities continue to investigate both deaths.
The 37-year-old, who struggled with drug and alcohol addiction and endured a series of failed and sometimes abusive relationships, had suffered a series of recent setbacks as well. She'd lost custody of her sons and checked out of a court-ordered substance abuse rehabilitation program in the days before her death.
A pair of McCready's cousins spoke for the singer's family. Ashley Webb read a letter from McCready's father, Tim, who said he watched his daughter deteriorate every day in the weeks after Wilson's death. Another cousin, Tristan White, said McCready "was passionate in everything she did. Sometimes that passion got her in trouble."
White also thanked a list of friends who went "above and beyond" for McCready, including Dr. Drew Pinsky, the "Celeb Rehab" host who attempted to help McCready and reached out to her in the days after Wilson's death. Pinsky has been criticized because five "Celeb Rehab" alumni have died since appearing on the show.
"All these people are people who made a huge impact on Mindy's life," White said.
McCready's former producer Jimmy Nichols, who helped guide her to the biggest successes of her singing career in the mid-to late-1990s, said he'd heard from McCready in the days before her death. She was seeking help with a song she wanted to put out in an attempt to restart her career. She sadly told him all she really wanted was her children back.
"I love you, Mindy. Rest well," he said. "You have so many angels guarding your soul tonight."
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So funny… "Luckily straight line quilting is kind of like having a baby for me….pretty soon I'll forget all about the pain and want to do it again"
I haven't had a baby but it sounds pretty awful so if straight line quilting is that bad, maybe I want to avoid it too haha.
Love this quilt tho! The quilting and the colors are beautiful. Please keep showing them to us :)
YAY!! It's my FAVOURITE quilt!! THIS is the quilt that inspired me to start quilting again :-) I haven't made it yet – but have been slowly collecting up fabrics for it! It think I'll just do ONE zig and zag on the white – it looks SO cool with lots .. but sounds like I might go mental if I try recreate it!! haha
I just can't take my eyes of your zig zag quilts – everything is perfect! I'm beginner and still my zig zag quilt are far away from yours!
Oh I love it. And it's funny- I love straight line quilting because I think it's easy. Might be because I still haven't gotten the hang of FMQ. Love the look of yours!
I know exactly how you feel about straightline quilting but the end results are always amazing!! I love your end result!! It's absolutely breath-taking!!
HILarious. I totally just blogged about how boring it was too.. LOVE the look.. HATE the quilting.
This is a beautiful quilt! I hope you can find a book to listen to for the next project. I feel the same about straight line quilting but think it's beautiful in the right application such as this.
Oh this is a very cute quilt. I love the zig zag quilting too. You can complain anytime you want:D We all know you still really enjoy the finished product as much as we all do. The work you put into your quilts is sooo worth it! Keep 'em coming!
Lovely quilting! Worth the pain. And I'll add my voice to those saying you are not alone. Straight-line quilting is so tedious. I try to talk myself into FMQ instead for everything. But sometimes straight lines are what the quilt wants. Glad you stuck it out on this one.
I LOVE the quilting! I love geometric shapes for my quilting. Your quilt is very stunning.
I must admit I don't like SLQ either, at least not the sewing. But it does look awesome on your quilt. I really need to make a zig zag quilt.
Since I started quilting, I started getting 2 audio books per month from audible.co.UK for £8. I buy books that are at least 25 hours long. The longer, the better. It makes even tedious quilting quite pleasant. I've built up a mini library of great listens, all for free or £4 each! If you want some recommendations let me know! As much as I hate audible's DRM thingy on my laptop, cheap audiobooks are sooo nice!
The quilting totally makes the quilt! And I love those little monkeys peeking out of the red blocks :)
I love your zigzag quilts. And just when I was getting ready to start the straight line quilting thing, you compared it to childbirth. Now I'm not so sure…
But it looks so cool when you do all of that straight line quilting!!!!!
That is one beautiful quilt! :)
So cute!! Hmmmm, has this lessened or increased my fear of half-square triangles?
It may be tedious, but it is gorgeous!! Great work!
Just beautiful!!! Love the colors!!!
Looks fantastic! Great job!
Hi, thankyou for posting this. Zigzag quilts have never appeal to me always thought they were boring; this is beautiful. you did an awesome job.
All I can say is, Georgeous !!!
Love this quilt. I really like straight line quilting. Free motion scares the beejeebees out of me. I use 505 spray on my quilts and that helps a lot with puckering on the back. It keeps the quilt sandwich together and washes out.
Oh I love it!! But I see no pins! How do you do it? Spray baste?? Do tell. Jenn
Ohhhh love it.. I don't do a lot of straight line work on my longarm but would love to do you one some time… on the house of course!.. Looking at your colors just makes me happy! So it seems like it might be fun to quilt it!
I recently did this kind of crazy zig-zag quilting on a disappearing nine-patch quilt (inspired by pics on your blog, in fact!), so I feel your pain! It required lots of music and lots of deep breaths… Thanks for blogging this one, I really enjoy seeing your work.
Hi Allison.
I love this new quilt. I love the colors you use.
A few days you do not say anything, but here I am again seeing all the beautiful things you do.
Greetings from Granada, Spain. from espiralcaracola.blogspot.com
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So gorgeous! This is my favorite of the zig zags.
oooh now you've gone and made me want to quilt today! Supposed to be doing nothing but can't resist a go at something with these quilt lines!
This is a gorgeous quilt it's so bright and cheery, and the straight line quilting really works. It's funny because it's stippling that makes me break out in a cold sweat – most of my quilts are straight line :-)
I just finished a zigzag quilt with straight line quilting so I totally feel your pain. And yes, listening to books is such a great way to pass the time! I listened to most of Lord of the Rings and a few others. Maybe that will get me going on the quilting I'm working on now. I'm struggling with motivation.
Luv luv luv your quilt ! The straight line quilting is perfection, I can imagine all the time that took, impressive. Wanted to ask how large each square is . . . . Thank u. ; )
Now I've recovered from the first quilt I ever made, I want to make a zigzag quilt just like this one. I love all of your zigzag quilts, but I'm so scared to make one in case I get the lines wrong. I guess I'll have to start with something really small, like a cushion or something!


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In honor of our re-staging of New Topographics, we're doing something special: starting this Sunday and occurring every Sunday through mid-December (except Thanksgiving Weekend), we've invited a leading Los Angeles-based photographer to give a tour of the show and share his or her insight into the ways New Topographics opened up possibilities for new photographic engagement with the landscape.
Each Sunday will feature a different photographer. In anticipation of each tour, we'll whet your appetite here on Unframed with an exclusive interview. First up: Mark Ruwedel. Mark has photographed the topography of the American West for nearly three decades, focusing on nature's reclamation of the land over time. He has depicted relics of industrial expansion, like abandoned railways, as well as evidence of geological upheaval, such as the impact of prehistoric glaciers. His recent series Westward the Course of Empire surveys the deterioration of the once mighty railroad network forged across the nineteenth-century American landscape.
I recently spoke to Mark about LACMA's restaging of this important exhibition, which was first seen in 1975 at the George Eastman House of Rochester, New York. The video here offers a sneak peek into Mark's take on New Topographics, and how it continues to bear influence on photographic practice today, including his own.
More details on this Sunday's tour can be found here, and you can get a glimpse of some of the future tours here.
Edward Robinson, Associate Curator, The Wallis Annenberg Photography Department


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Last week I posted pics of the before and after job I did on the basement junk room – turned guest room. This project kinda happened along side it. The new nursery was formerly the office and getting it in shape was pretty intertwined with the basement project. Neither of these things were on my 20 Weeks of Organizing Challenge list. But I did them, so here is the second part for you to see.
Since this used to be the office and you saw how that changed already, these are sort of "during" pictures. Here you can see the three chairs that I'm selling on craigslist. The book shelf went downstairs to the guest room. The cedar chest under the shelf was packed and there were some blankets without homes. You can see that Rick's work clothes are no longer in the closet, but there is a new hanging organizer in there for the newbie and a nightstand that went downstairs too.
Here are the after pictures:
You can actually SEE the cedar chest now, blankets have been organized (some donated) and the shelf above cleaned off. The afghan on top of the chest was made by my great-grandmother for me when I was a baby. I kept it stored all this time, but I finally decided that, girl or boy, it's coming out and getting used.
The closet is cleaned out and ready for some baby clothes (some are in the wash, some I need to buy yet), and a hamper. I might (if I get ambitious) make a little curtain to hide my birth class supplies on the top shelf. but I might not.
This corner has the crib and dresser. I had that dresser as a little girl too, and I gave it a fresh coat of paint before H was born. I changed out a few knobs this week, since one of the old ones was broken. You can't really tell in the picture, but the sheet in the crib has little lambs all over it.
I stole the idea for fabric in embroidery hoops from my friend Meg. Her nursery is SUPER cute… perfect to go with her new super cute baby boy! And the sheep and shepherd mobile is probably my second favorite item after the afghan. Last is the shelf-turned changing table. I'd like to get some picture frames put on the wall above this.
As you can see, it's pretty simple. I'm still missing some details, like curtains for the window, a lamp… a few little things to make it feel homey.
This week, the Organizing Junkie posted about Enough. The bones of the space are essentially done. I'd like to get a rug and some cute things for the shelf and the walls too. But, the set up, cleaning and organizing is finally done. The rest is just details. That's good enough for me right now.


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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson, who helped found the American Football League in 1960, died at his home on Tuesday afternoon. He was 95.
Bills president Russ Brandon made the announcement at the NFL winter meetings in Orlando.
Wilson was the founder and sole owner of the Bills after establishing the team with the upstart AFL in 1960. He played a key role in the league's merger with the NFL. He was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame in 2009.
Wilson died at his home in Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich., around 1:40 p.m., said Mary Mazur, spokeswoman for the Wayne County medical examiner's office.
He had been receiving in-home hospice care.
"No one loves this game more than Ralph Wilson," Brandon said in a statement. "It's very tough. What he's meant to the entire organization. He's our leader, our mentor our friend. How he loves his players and loved our community. Special guy. They just don't make them like Ralph Wilson."
Wilson had been in failing health for several years after having hip surgery in 2011. Though he spent much of his time at his home suburban Detroit, he was well enough to attend the Hall of Fame induction weekends over the past few years.
After regularly attending Bills home games since founding the franchise, Wilson had not been to a game since attending one in 2010.
Wilson established a reputation as being the "conscience" of the NFL for his loyalty to fans and the several stands he took against franchise relocation.
"He didn't let anyone pull anything off in him. He was very forceful," New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson said.
"Mr. Wilson was a visionary and pioneer of professional football," added Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank. "We have lost a founding member of the NFL family, but Ralph's lasting impact on the NFL will forever be felt."


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1. I'm tired of the tropics. Figi, China Sea, Panama, it's just one beautiful beach after another. Nothing but sand, sand, sand and palm trees with an occasional glorious sunset. The venues are starting to run together and I'm beginning to suspect the show isn't held on an island at all but in a very large New Zealand back lot with Oompa Loompas as key grips. Let's have some real mountains and mud flats for a change. All the talk of ANWR in the news and the time is ripe for a little down-to-earth living off the land and a chance for the rest of the world to see what Alaska's really like.
2. Anyone can survive the tropics--just ask Tom Hanks—but it takes a real survivor to make it through cold, wind, rain, bears, moose, glaciers and killer whales. Survivor in Tahiti is just one step away from a country club.
3. The tiki torches and thatched lean-tos are growing tiresome, it's starting to feel more like The Tiki Room at Disneyland than a legitimate survival adventure.
4. I want some new gear for the participants. I'd like to see them try to wear those tube tops in the snow—or else they'd have to come up with a way to make them out of Gortex and to make the bandannas out of those silver space blankets. Maybe with some fur edging . . .
5. In fact the show could do with a little hypothermia. Now THAT would be something. Of course, there's enough sad attempts to generate heat as it is . . . on second thought maybe you wouldn't want the cast huddling together any more than they already are, it would just be over the top with salaciousness.
6. But Survivor in Alaska would mean some Serious Survival. None of this collecting fallen coconuts and spear fishing little fish off the reef. Let's see somebody catch a salmon with their bare hands in a glacial stream and harvest dandelions and low-bush cranberries for dinner. Maybe even skin a caribou. I'd watch that.
7. I'd like to see some immunity challenges that are more challenging. Fighting a polar bear. Yea, that would be worthy of prime time. Put the tribes together with a couple of polar bears and see who would win immunity. I'm guessing it'll be the bear.
8. But an episode in Alaska would mean action from the very start. In fact, if they held it here and had everyone jump off the boat and swim for shore at the beginning, only about 50% would make it to shore before they either froze or were carried away by the 25-foot tides. Talk about your drama. It would be more like Titanic and less like Gilligan's Island meets Falcon Crest.
9. Survivor Alaska would be extra cool because the tribe names would be too hard to pronounce. Just picture the Kwigillingok Tribe facing off against the Tuntutuliak Tribe. I'd like to see a network exec wrap their tongue around those words.
10. A vote for Survivor Alaska would mean a vote for seeing hair dressers from San Bernardino, baristas from Seattle and bond traders from East Hampton eating fish ice cream and muk tuk. Fish ice cream—and this is for real—is a traditional Native Alaskan dish of whipped caribou fat mixed with berries, fish and sugar and muk tuk is raw whale blubber—sometimes fermented and also quite traditional. I think. I've never got close enough to verify this information. But wouldn't that be entertaining?
11. Survivor Alaska would open the doors for all kinds of other interesting venues. Just think, they could follow it up with a Survivor Baghdad, a Survivor Sudan or even Survivor Bangladesh. I hear it's harder to stay alive there than in The Caymans.
12. Survivor Alaska would also mean you could have regular people as contestants, not glamour girls trying for their big break into acting. With all the clothes they'd have to wear you'd hardly be able to tell if they were thin or fat, ugly or pretty. In fact, a little meat on the bones would probably be a benefit—better insulation.
13. Forget voting someone off the island, I want to see someone get voted off the ice floe.
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Nyong'o's goal after Oscar win was not to trip
NEW YORK (AP) — Looking back, Lupita Nyong'o says the moments after she won her Academy Award this year were a blur and time stood still.
But she says in the July issue of Vogue there's one thing she does remember: worrying she would trip on her way to the podium.
"It's not cute if you follow Jennifer Lawrence — it's not cute if you're the second one!" she laughed, referring to Lawrence's famous stumble while collecting her best-actress Oscar the year before.
The 31-year-old actress has a steady path ahead of her.
She will voice a character in Jon Favreau's take on Disney's "The Jungle Book" and landed a role in "Star Wars: Episode VII." Plus she's going to co-produce and star in an adaption of the Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book "Americanah," saying the story blew her away.
The July issue of Vogue goes on sale Tuesday in New York and Los Angeles.


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SYDNEY — Andy Curr says her worst ever in- flight experience was brought on her by her own offspring.
Curr, a web designer from Sydney, was traveling from London to Bangkok about three years ago when her second-youngest daughter, then 20 months, "screamed all the way," she said. The wailing got her older children going, too.
"Once one goes off, they all start," said Curr, 41.
Balancing the needs of customers wanting a peaceful trip with those of harried parents has become a major challenge for airlines trying to cater to both groups. Singapore Airlines's budget carrier Scoot unveiled a childfree zone for passengers prepared to pay extra, following AirAsia X and Malaysian Airline System, who also segregate kids.
Seat-kicking and unruly children came ahead of drunken passengers, rude cabin crew, and lecherous neighbors as on-board annoyances in a July survey by British financial services comparison website Gocompare. Respondents said they'd be prepared to add 50 pounds ($78.6) to the cost of a return flight if they could sit in childfree zones.
"People love their own kids, but they might not necessarily love someone else's to the same extent," said Scoot Chief Executive Officer Campbell Wilson. "Allowing someone the option of traveling with the assurance of not having young children around is simply one of the many choices you have."
Scoot charges an extra S$14.95 for 41 economy-class seats directly behind business class with three inches of extra legroom, where children under 12 aren't allowed.
There was "some very robust debate" in the office about the merits of the service, said Wilson, who doesn't have children. Several colleagues who are parents favored a play area instead, he said. Carriers who've introduced child-free zones say they haven't received significant negative feedback.
"Getting choice means you are satisfying both sets of people," Azran Osman Rani, CEO of AirAsia X. "Even families with kids are positive because now they are in the other zone and they feel less guilty."
CNN correspondent Richard Quest encouraged followers on his Twitter feed to echo his call to "ban babies in business class,"in an Aug. 28. posting.
Some airlines are responding. Malaysian Airline introduced a largely child-free upper deck on its A380 aircraft when they entered service on July 1, 2012. The carrier said it will only seat families in the 70 upper-deck economy seats if there's no more room on the lower level.
"You're all in one tin can, so it's a little bit difficult to keep everyone happy," said Marcus Osborne, a father of three and a partner at branding consultants FusionBrand Sdn. in Kuala Lumpur. "If I had the option to sit in an area where there were no kids, I would probably jump at the chance."
Other carriers are trying to be more accommodating. From Oct. 1, Japan Airlines Co. will reserve the four rear-most economy seats on routes between Tokyo and Honolulu for women who want to breastfeed or apply make-up.
Etihad Airways PJSC has hired consultants from Norland College, a British childcare training center, to teach child psychology and sociology to about 500 cabin crew designated as "flying nannies" on the Middle-East carrier's long-haul flights, a free service available in all classes.
The orange-aproned nannies seek to make traveling easier for parents by serving children's meals early in the flight and offering infant activities ranging from magic tricks to origami and sock puppets. CEO James Hogan introduced a similar program in 2003 while CEO of Bahrain's Gulf Air.
"We have received fantastic feedback from guests from right around the world," said Aubrey Tiedt, Etihad Airways' Vice President Guest Services.
The introduction of child-free zones risks backfiring if it alienates parents and will probably only work for budget airlines, said Andrew Wong, regional director for Europe and Australia at TripAdvisor's flights unit.
"It's a bit of a tricky area for full service carriers," he said. "You don't really want to vilify parents traveling with kids, they're people just like you and me."
Segregating an aircraft cabin used to be common in the days of smoking sections, which have been all-but eradicated from global commercial aviation in the past decade. Like smoke, a child's screams waft over several rows, so Scoot and AirAsia X separate their child-free zones from the rest of the cabin with toilet blocks and Malaysian puts them on a separate floor.
A child's scream can be as loud as 105 decibels, louder than a chainsaw or subway train, according to the American Tinnitus Association. People exposed to sounds above 85 decibels should wear earplugs, according to the group.
Still, branding children as the biggest source of in-flight annoyance isn't fair, given the behavior of some adults on flights, said Curr, the Sydney web designer. She's started a blog about traveling with her four children at age 3 to 14 on her website flyingwithbaby.com, which advises on "getting there without going insane."
"You can't choose who you fly with," she said. "Adults are usually the worst-behaved, and drunk sometimes."
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Some Ate Turkey, Others Decided to Shop
This year's Black Friday shoppers were split into two distinct groups: those who wanted to fall into a turkey-induced slumber and those who'd rather shop instead.
Stores typically open in the wee hours of the morning on the day after Thanksgiving that's named Black Friday because it's traditionally when retailers turn a profit for the year. But after testing how shoppers would respond to earlier hours last year, stores such as Target and Toys R Us this year opened as early as Thanksgiving evening. That led shoppers on a mission to find the best Black Friday deals to ask a difficult question: Deal with the crowds now or later?
Crystal Camacho, 19, and Sammy Caban, 23, got to Best Buy in the Manhattan borough of New York City at 12:30 a.m. on Black Friday with one goal in mind, a 40-inch Toshiba TV on sale for $180. They were determined, even though they both worked on Thanksgiving Day and had to work on Black Friday, she as a restaurant hostess and he as salesperson at GameStop. Five hours later, a little after 5 a.m., they walked out with the TV.
"It was crazy but well worth it," Caban said. "We got lucky."
Elizabeth Garcia, a sales rep from the city's Bronx borough, decided for a later shopping started at about 3:30 a.m. at a nearby Toys R Us in New York's Times Square. Garcia, who has three children ages three, five and seven, said she specifically decided on the later time to avoid the crowds on Thanksgiving when the store opened at 8 p.m. She believes that was the best decision: Last year, Garcia almost got into a fight over a Tinker Bell couch, but this year things were much calmer.
"This year I wasn't about to kill people," she said.
It is unclear how many shoppers were drawn to the earlier openings versus the traditional Black Friday hours. But according to an International Council of Shopping Centers-Goldman Sachs survey of 1,000 consumers conducted this month, about 17 percent planned to shop at stores that opened on Thanksgiving, up from 16 percent last year when retailers were testing the earlier hours. Meanwhile, 33 percent intended to shop on Black Friday, down one percentage point from last year. Overall, it's estimated that sales on Black Friday will be up 3.8 percent to $11.4 billion this year.
The earlier hours are an effort by stores to make shopping as convenient as possible for Americans, who they fear won't spend freely during the two-month holiday season in November and December because of economic uncertainty. Many shoppers are worried about high unemployment and a package of tax increases and spending cuts known as the "fiscal cliff" that will take effect in January unless Congress passes a budget deal by then. At the same time, Americans have grown more comfortable shopping on websites that offer cheap prices and the convenience of being able to buy something from smartphones, laptops and tablet computers from just about anywhere.
That's put added pressure on brick-and-mortar stores, which can make up to 40 percent of their annual revenue during the holiday shopping season, to give consumers a compelling reason to leave their homes. That's becoming more difficult: the National Retail Federation, an industry trade group, estimates that overall sales in November and December will rise 4.1 percent this year to $586.1 billion, or about flat with last year's growth. But the online part of that is expected to rise 15 percent to $68.4 billion, according to Forrester Research.
As a result, brick-and-mortar retailers have been trying everything they can to lure consumers into stores. Some stores tested the earlier hours last year, but this year more retailers opened their doors late on Thanksgiving or at midnight on Black Friday. In addition to expanding their hours, many also are offering free layaways and shipping, matching the cheaper prices of online rivals and updating their mobile shopping apps with more information.
"Every retailer wants to beat everyone else," said C. Britt Beemer, chairman of America's Research Group, a research firm based in Charleston, S.C. "Shoppers love it."
Indeed, some holiday shoppers seemed to find stores' earlier hours appealing. About 11,000 shoppers were in lines wrapped around Macy's flagship store in New York City's Herald Square when it opened at midnight on Black Friday. Joan Riedewald, a private aide for the elderly, and her four children ages six to 18, where among them. By the time they showed up at the department store, Riedewalde had already spent about $100 at Toys R Us, which opened at 8 p.m., and planned to spend another $500 at Macy's before heading to Old Navy.
"I only shop for sales," she said.
Carey Maguire, 33, and her sister Caitlyn Maguire, 21, showed up at the same Target about two hours before it opened. Their goal was to buy several Nook tablet computers, which were on sale for $49. But while waiting in line they were also using their iPhone to do some online buying at rival stores.
"If you're going to spend, I want to make it worth it," said Caitlyn Maguire, a college student.
By the afternoon on Thanksgiving, there were 11 shoppers in a four-tent encampment outside a Best Buy store near Ann Arbor, Mich., that opened at midnight. The purpose of their wait? A $179 40-inch Toshiba LCD television is worth missing Thanksgiving dinner at home.
Jackie Berg, 26, of Ann Arbor, arrived first with her stepson and a friend Wednesday afternoon, seeking three of the televisions. The deal makes the TVs $240 less than their normal price, so Berg says that she'll save more than $700.
"We'll miss the actual being there with family, but we'll have the rest of the weekend for that," she said.


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Portable shelters couldn't save 19 firefighters
PRESCOTT, Ariz. – With no way out, the 19 elite firefighters did what they were trained to do when trapped by a wildfire: They unfurled their foil-lined, heat-resistant tarps and rushed to cover themselves on the ground.
But that last, desperate line of defense couldn't save the "Hotshot" crew from the flames that swept over them.
All 19 men died, marking the nation's biggest loss of firefighters in a wildfire in 80 years.
The tragedy Sunday evening all but wiped out the 20-member Granite Mountain Hotshots, a unit based at Prescott, authorities said Monday as the last of the bodies were retrieved from the mountain in the town of Yarnell. Only one member survived, and that was because he was moving the unit's truck at the time.
The deaths plunged the two small towns into mourning as the wildfire continued to threaten one of them, Yarnell.
Arizona's governor called it "as dark a day as I can remember" and ordered flags flown at half-staff. In a heartbreaking sight, a long line of white vans carried the bodies to Phoenix for autopsies.
"I know that it is unbearable for many of you, but it also is unbearable for me. I know the pain that everyone is trying to overcome and deal with today," said Gov. Jan Brewer, her voice catching several times as she addressed reporters and residents at Prescott High School in the town of 40,000.
The lightning-sparked fire – which spread to 13 square miles by Monday morning – destroyed about 50 homes and threatened 250 others in and around Yarnell, a town of 700 people in the mountains about 85 miles northwest of Phoenix, the Yavapai County Sheriff's Department said.
About 200 more firefighters joined the battle Monday, bringing the total to 400. Among them were several other Hotshot teams, elite groups of firefighters sent in from around the country to battle the nation's fiercest wildfires.
Residents huddled in shelters and restaurants, watching their homes burn on TV as flames lit up the night sky in the forest above the town.
It was unclear exactly how the firefighters became trapped, and state officials were investigating.
Brewer said the blaze "exploded into a firestorm" that overran the crew.
Prescott City Councilman Len Scamardo said the wind changed directions and brought 40 mph to 50 mph gusts that caused the firefighters to become trapped around 3 p.m. Sunday. The blaze grew from 200 acres to about 2,000 in a matter of hours.
Southwest incident team leader Clay Templin said the crew and its commanders were following safety protocols, and it appears the fire's erratic nature simply overwhelmed them.
The Hotshot team had spent recent weeks fighting fires in New Mexico and Prescott before being called to Yarnell, entering the smoky wilderness over the weekend with backpacks, chainsaws and other heavy gear to remove brush and trees as a heat wave across the Southwest sent temperatures into the triple digits.
All Prescott Fire Chief Dan Freijo said he feared the worst when he received a call Sunday afternoon from someone assigned to the fire.
"All he said was 'We might have bad news. The entire Hotshot crew deployed their shelters,'" Fraijo said. "When we talk about deploying the shelters, that's an automatic fear, absolutely. That's a last-ditch effort to save yourself when you deploy your shelter."
Arizona Forestry Division spokesman Mike Reichling said all 19 victims had deployed their emergency shelters as they were trained to do.
When there is no way out, firefighters are supposed to step into them, lie face down on the ground and pull the fire-resistant fabric completely over themselves. The shelter is designed to reflect heat and trap cool breathable air inside for a few minutes while a wildfire burns over a person.
But its success depends on firefighters being in a cleared area away from fuels and not in the direct path of a raging inferno of heat and hot gases.
The glue holding the layers of the shelter together begins to come apart at about 500 degrees, well above the 300 degrees that would almost immediately kill a person.
"It'll protect you, but only for a short amount of time. If the fire quickly burns over you, you'll probably survive that," said Prescott Fire Capt. Jeff Knotek. But "if it burns intensely for any amount of time while you're in that thing, there's nothing that's going to save you from that."
Autopsies were scheduled to determine exactly how the firefighters died.
President Barack Obama offered his administration's help in investigating the tragedy and predicted it will force government leaders to answer broader questions about how they handle increasingly destructive and deadly wildfires.
"We are heartbroken about what happened," he said while on a visit to Africa.
The U.S. has 110 Hotshot crews, according to the U.S. Forest Service website. They typically have about 20 members each and go through specialized training.
Many of those killed were graduates of Prescott High, including 28-year-old Clayton Whitted, who as a firefighter would work out on the same campus where he played football for the Prescott Badgers from 2000 to 2004.
The school's football coach, Lou Beneitone, said Whitted was the type of athlete who "worked his fanny off."
"He wasn't a big kid, and many times in the game, he was overpowered by big men, and he still got after it. He knew, 'This man in front of me is a lot bigger and stronger than me,' but he'd try it and he'd smile trying it," Beneitone said.
He and Whitted had talked a few months ago about how this year's fire season could be a "rough one."
"I shook his hand, gave him a hug, and said, 'Be safe out there,'" Beneitone recalled. "He said, 'I will, Coach.'"
Hundreds of people were evacuated from the Yarnell area. In addition to the flames, downed power lines and exploding propane tanks continued to threaten what was left of the town, said fire information officer Steve Skurja.
"It's a very hazardous situation right now," Skurja said.
Arizona is in the midst of a historic drought that has left large parts of the state highly flammable.
"Until we get a significant showing of the monsoons, it's showtime, and it's dangerous, really dangerous," incident commander Roy Hall said.
The National Fire Protection Association website lists the last wildfire to kill more firefighters as the 1933 Griffith Park blaze in Los Angeles, which killed 29. The biggest loss of firefighters in U.S. history was 343, killed in the 9/11 attack on New York.
In 1994, the Storm King Fire near Glenwood Springs, Colo., killed 14 firefighters who were overtaken by an explosion of flames.
A makeshift memorial of flower bouquets and American flags formed at the Prescott fire station where the crew was based.
Prescott resident Keith Gustafson showed up and placed 19 water bottles in the shape of a heart.
"When I heard about this, it just hit me hard," he said. "It hit me like a ton of bricks."


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This past Monday, at Millesime in the Carlton Hotel (88 Madison Avenue, between 28 and 29th, in Manhattan) there was a kosher food and wine pairing event. Adam Mukamal, a lawyer with J.P. Morgan Chase, first came up with the idea and immediately enlisted Seth Weiser, from 67 Wine and Spirits, and Nelly Rosenking, from Nelly's List, event planner extraordinaire.
Many of the top wine distributors were at the event, such as Royal Wine Corporation, Happy Hearts Wine, Allied Importers, Recanati Wines and more. The food was superbly prepared and beautifully presented.
Photos by Tibor Tóth
Food ranged from salmon to beef, to salads, fruit salad and cakes…
The audience fully enjoyed the food and the more than 60 wines…
There were some superb wines that showed how far kosher wine-making has come over the last 20 years; from the laughing stock of the wine world to internationally acclaimed award winning potables in direct competition with the best of the non-kosher world. Among the wines at this pairing there was a whole range spanning from the mid tens to $200 a bottle.
I've been to quite a few food and wine pairing events over the years, never have I seen anything quite like this one. Incredible as may sound, the whole thing was planned in a mere three weeks through the herculean efforts of the team under the direction of genius event planner Nelly Rosenking, who just got back from putting together a similar function for 400 people in Tel Aviv, in roughly the same amount of time.
Great food, great wine, great people, great ambiance, who can ask for more? It just doesn't get any better than this!
(Next week, be'ezras Hashem, we'll post our video of this event and more on iFoods.tv's brand new kosher channel)


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Today's News: Our Take - Exclusive Video: Say Watt?! Four Houses' Blinding Christmas Lights Extravaganza
Is there such a thing as too much Christmas cheer?
On TLC's Four Houses: Deck the Halls, airing Tuesday at 10/9c, four Christmas-crazy homeowners compete to prove that they have the most holiday spirit. Marie is all about elegance and minimalism, Jason's trademark is animatronic displays, Dhonna uses live people for dynamic tableaus, and Kevin the retired firefighter? Well, Kevin likes lights. Lots of them.
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Check out this exclusive sneak peek of the contestants looking at Kevin's house - or at least we assume there's a house under the 1,000 mega-watt glare from the Christmas lights and display pieces ranging from blinking snowflakes and a Nativity scene to carolers and Santa Pig. It's as if Lite Brite wanted to create a landmark by which aliens could navigate. Watch the clip and let us know if you think Kevin's home is gaudy or nice:
Four Houses: Deck the Halls airs Tuesday at 10/9c on TLC.
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A big Medicaid gap looms in Obama health care law
WASHINGTON — Nearly 2 in 3 uninsured low-income people who would qualify for subsidized coverage under President Barack Obama's health care law may be out of luck next year because their states have not expanded Medicaid.
An Associated Press analysis of figures from the Urban Institute finds a big coverage gap developing, with 9.7 million out of 15 million potentially eligible adults living in states that are refusing the expansion or are still undecided with time running short.
That a majority of the neediest people who could be helped by the law may instead remain uninsured is a predicament unforeseen by Obama and congressional Democrats who designed a sweeping extension of the social safety net. The law's historic promise of health insurance for nearly all U.S. residents would not be fulfilled as envisioned.
It's the direct consequence of last summer's Supreme Court decision that gave states the right to opt out of the Medicaid expansion, combined with unyielding resistance to the law from many Republican state lawmakers.
Expanding Medicaid is essential to Obama's two-part strategy for covering the uninsured.
Starting next year, middle-class people without job-based coverage will be able to get tax credits to help them buy private insurance. But the law calls for low-income people to enroll in Medicaid, expanded to accommodate a largely excluded group: adults with no children at home. Expanded Medicaid would cover about half the 25 million to 30 million people who could be helped by the law.
Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have decided to accept the expansion, which is fully financed by Washington for the first three years and phases down gradually to a 90 percent federal share.
Among those are six states led by Republican governors. But the majority of low-income Americans newly eligible for Medicaid under the law live in states such as Texas, Florida and Georgia, where political opposition remains formidable.
"Because of the Supreme Court's decision making Medicaid expansion optional with the states, we're going to see some pretty significant differences in this country from one place to another in terms of access to health care and access to health insurance," said Gary Cohen, the Health and Human Services official overseeing the rollout of the law.
Speaking this past week at the Brookings Institution, Cohen added: "We are going to have an opportunity ... to take a look at that in a year and see what difference it made, the choices that were made at the political level to do one thing rather than another.
"And that's going to be a pretty profound difference and a pretty profound choice that we get to make every couple of years about what kind of country we want to be," Cohen continued.
Elections for state offices and Congress will be held next year.
Republican state lawmakers continue to oppose the expansion for several reasons. Many believe Medicaid has too many problems already. Others worry that Washington will renege on financing, and some believe health care is an individual responsibility, not a government obligation.
"It's an ideological principle piece to us on the conservative side," David Gowan, Arizona's Republican House majority leader said recently. "We don't believe in the expansion of Medicaid itself. ... We don't believe it's the government's duty to do that." Gov. Jan Brewer, also a Republican, succeeded in getting the Arizona Medicaid expansion through the Legislature but now faces the possibility of a referendum to block the law.
GOP health policy expert Gail Wilensky says she did not expect so many states to turn down the Medicaid expansion. While critical of some main features of the Affordable Care Act, Wilensky believes it's important for the country to get uninsured people covered.
"For me, it is really is quite surprising — particularly in the years with 100 percent federal funding — that so many states are saying 'no,'" Wilensky said. "This is depriving the poorest of their citizens of an important benefit." Wilensky ran Medicare and Medicaid during the George H.W. Bush administration.
The AP's continuing check of the states finds 18 not expanding and nine where the outcome is still undecided. The biggest states where the expansion is stymied are Texas, with 1.7 million potentially eligible residents; Florida, with 1.3 million, and Georgia, with more than 680,000.
Still trying to find a path forward are Michigan and Ohio, whose Republican governors support the expansion but face legislative opposition. Each has more than one-half million potentially eligible residents, according to the Urban Institute, a public policy research center.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says she hopes that holdouts will have a change of heart.
"The door is open," said Sebelius. "If a legislature decides to reconvene at the beginning of January, and change their law, then we would welcome them in."
There is no deadline for states to decide. Next year states will have an opportunity in each calendar quarter, and if they later want to drop out they can do that.
Low-income residents of states refusing the expansion will be exempted from tax penalties for being uninsured. Those penalties also take effect next year, when virtually everyone in the country will be required to have health insurance.
Medicaid already covers more than 60 million people, including many elderly nursing home residents, severely disabled people of any age and many low-income children and their mothers.
An earlier Urban Institute analysis of the expansion found that less than $100 billion in state spending could trigger nearly $1 trillion in federal dollars over a decade.
As originally designed, the expansion was supposed to cover households making up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, about $15,860 for an individual or $32,500 for a family of four.
Under the law, Medicaid is the only coverage option for people below the poverty line, $11,490 for an individual, or $23,550 for a family of four. The poor cannot get subsidized private coverage in the new health insurance markets coming on line next year.
"This decision will have very real human costs for the adults who are going to remain uninsured and their families," said Genevieve Kenney, co-director of the Urban Institute's health policy center. "It seriously undermines the ability of the Affordable Care Act to substantially reduce the number of uninsured in this country, at least at the beginning."


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Your inbox will never look the same after this.
A San Francisco-based startup called Streak has developed a free Google Chrome browser extension that's changing the email game: the extension lets email senders see when recipients open an email.
Using the extension with a Gmail account, senders will be notified when someone opened their email and who opened the email.
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If that's not useful — or for some, disturbing — enough, Streak will also tell you where the email was opened. The extension will put the email on a map, giving the user real-time location updates about the recipients.
An eye icon will appear when a user views an email sent with Streak. When the recipient opens the email, the eye icon will turn green, signaling the sender that their email has been read. The recipient doesn't need to have Streak installed for the email sender to be notified that the email was opened.
The sent email will not notify the recipient that their email is being tracked. Streak isn't the first service to perform this function; Bananatag also notifies a user when their email has been read, but requires a monthly fee to send more than 5 emails, and doesn't give you locations.
Streak was designed for customer relationship management, and also features tools for sales, support, hiring, scheduling emails and sharing emails company-wide. It also works with Gmail in the Safari browser, as well as Google Apps accounts for businesses.
Streak is free while in beta; the developers plan to maintain a free version of the extension as it continues in development.
This article originally appeared on Mashable.


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What makes one person walk into a ballroom or a gymnasium and be overwhelmed by it's scale and structure wondering how they can possibly make the space interesting, and the other be charged with neurons, colors, structural nuances dancing in their heads filling the room with endless creative possibilities? What makes one person with a healthy budget and a good eye for detail, color and proportion be inspired by others and recreate good decor, floral and table arrangements, attractive foods; while the other with half, equal or double the budget is engaged in creating and using space, objects, colors and textures in forms that burst forth in endless streams of creative harmonic innovation and beauty?
Meet Tammy Polatsek of Aristocratic Design Co. From the first to the last detail, she's a steady, self directed, well orchestrated stream of flowing unique mental images metamorphosed into magnificent creations – working form, color, medium and function of objects as her partners in creation. Be it a cake, a dish, a flower, a space, a wedding, an event, Tammy has the unique gift of transforming the plain into the magnificent and magnificent as you've never seen it before.
We visited her yesterday at the Aristocratic Design Co. booth. She was setting up for a Bonei Olam auction, where she was donating $3,000 in event planning services. Tammy showed us her custom-made line (Carmona) of off white porcelain dishes. Note the aesthetic flow of form and function
that she adheres to, while creating shapes that are totally original. (Aristocratic Design Co. will do custom orders on these plates, BTW).
Ahhh, the table setting… done on a table made from a wonderful piece of wood she found and shaped into a design that is signature Polatsek. The family of colors just flow from one to the other; it's a feast for the eyes in shades of pinks, brown and burgundies that just blend beautifully with shapes that move together in harmonious union. Even the flowers, (which she imports fresh directly from Colombia & Ecuador) seem to bend to her will, yet she seems to submit to their will as well.
Her creative juices are forever unfolding, evolving, moving, never stepping on the same place in the river of her artistic consciousness.
Tammy showed us photos of some of the events she created. From moving floral arrangements on runway models, to Indian weddings, to show stopping events for the Oscars in Hollywood, to World Wrestling Entertainment, to the Emmy Awards, to Las Vegas events, to Fox News she outdoes herself and any of the competition with eclat and originality!
What began in her early married life as a challenge to herself to prove to that she could, when told by others that she could not, sparked the beginning of a creative process whose ongoing journey creates an Eden of gorgeous 'out of the box' possibilities wherever she directs her energies.
Having already published her Aristocratic Fruits – a step-by-step book on fruit carving – and other projects, she is now working on a new book, From Chef to Chef with Love – a composite of over 400 chefs from around the globe telling their stories and sharing their experiencing cooking with the various cultural food restrictions of their respective regions.
Tammy and Aristocratic Design Co. are available for booking. Floral Wedding design packages start at around $3,500. Don't be intimidated by her talent, she's got a warm, accessible nature. And be assured that she will deliver a stunning original event that will be talked about and copied for years to come.


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